Morrison's charging VAT

agentsquirrel_2

hi, went to morrison's yesterday to do some grocery shopping, now i know you pay VAT on hot food but when i checked the till reciept at home i found that my bill was £52.90 subtotal, +VAT @6.94 bringing my shopping to £59.84. when did this start, i had no hot food as i said, nothing apart from basic grocery shopping. just wondered if all the big supermarkets are doing this. if this is the case then the prices arent right are they. its a puzzlement to be honest. anyone else checked their till reciept and found they'd been charged VAT. :mad:

ManAtHome

£6.94 is the VAT on around £39.65 if it helps narrow things down.

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Why do you care if you're charged VAT? All the prices on the shelves are the price you pay...

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As a side thought, you say their prices aren't right, but i'd bet they are.

Say you buy:

-Loaf of bread for £1
-Bag of maltesers for £1

You'll pay £2, but your receipt will show £1.85 plus VAT. This is because VAT is chargeable on the maltesers (a luxury good) but not on the bread.

So if we break it down further:

Bread before VAT = £1
Bread after VAT = £1 (VAT of £0.00 charged)

Maltesers before VAT = £0.85
Maltesers after VAT = £1 (VAT of £0.15 charged, that's 17.5% of 85p)

So the pre-VAT price is £1.85, and it shows on the receipt as "you pay £1.85 plus VAT, so you pay £2.00"... but you were expecting to pay £2.00 anyway because on the shelf, each item said it was £1.

uktim29

agentsquirrel wrote: »

anyone else checked their till reciept and found they'd been charged VAT. :mad:

They have to charge VAT on VATable goods, it's the law!

Many items will be classed as confectionary which will all have VAT on.

Heres a list of other items which have VAT in Supermarkets:

• Ice cream, similar products, and mixes for making them
• Confectionery, apart from cakes and some biscuits, alcoholic beverages, other beverages, and preparations for making them
• Potato crisps, roasted or salted nuts and some other savoury snack products
• Products for home brewing and wine making
• Ornamental vegetables
• Juice and juice concentrates
• Nuts if shelled and either roasted or salted
• Mixes for ice-cream and similar frozen products
• Ice creams, sorbets, frozen yoghurt (designed to be eaten as such) or ice lollies
• Linseed oil and essential oils
• Cereal, muesli and similar bars with honey or other added sweetening matter
• Shortbread partly or wholly chocolate-covered
• All wholly or partly coated biscuits including biscuits decorated in a pattern with chocolate or some similar product
• Chocolate shortbread
• Gingerbread men decorated with chocolate unless this amounts to no more than a couple of dots for eyes

The list goes on and on, more can be found here http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/channelsPortalWebApp.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pageTravel_ShowContent&id=HMCE_CL_000118&propertyType=document#P19_850

real1314

agentsquirrel wrote: »

hi, went to morrison's yesterday to do some grocery shopping, now i know you pay VAT on hot food but when i checked the till reciept at home i found that my bill was £52.90 subtotal, +VAT @6.94 bringing my shopping to £59.84. when did this start, i had no hot food as i said, nothing apart from basic grocery shopping. just wondered if all the big supermarkets are doing this. if this is the case then the prices arent right are they. its a puzzlement to be honest. anyone else checked their till reciept and found they'd been charged VAT. :mad:

Chocoate covered biscuits are VATable, whereas chocolate covered cakes are not, hence a jaffa cake is vat free, but a chocolate digestive is vatable.
iirc smoothies and fruit juice are vatable.

more details available here: http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/channelsPortalWebApp.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pageLibrary_PublicNoticesAndInfoSheets&propertyType=document&columns=1&id=HMCE_CL_000118#P67_4124

SaraSeahorse

the receipt will show a break down but it is a backwards calculation

you pick up a chocolate bar that say costs £1.00
it will scan and show on receipt as £1.00 but you receipt will show a break down of the price

HC_2

Tim is quite right (:eek: ). Nothing has changed except perhaps Morrison's till receipts. Blame the government, not the supermarkets.

maninthestreet

HC wrote: »

Tim is quite right (:eek: ). Nothing has changed except perhaps Morrison's till receipts. Blame the government, not the supermarkets.

I blame the EU.

gunsandbanjos

uktim29 wrote: »

Ornamental vegetables

lol, what the heck is an ornamental vegetable:rotfl: